100+ Items Found For william young (showing top 100 results)

The Wire (p.48) - "[A] fine example of how resourceful and inventive a musician Young can be, given ample inspiration and room to manoeuvre. DEAD MAN was entirely improvised in real time..."Melody Maker (4/6/96, p.37) - "...Listening to it is an odd sensation. Young has created a rumbling, harrowing noise that makes you want to use the phrase 'distant thunder' without it sounding like a cliche....When Depp reads [William Blake's poetry] you feel awed and excited....he is both moved and moving..."NME (Magazine) (3/2/96, p.49) - 7 (out of 10) - "...Young is crackling like a campfire primed with gelignite. Occasionally, the urge to explode and explore is too great and, pump-organ at the ready, Young tramples all in his path with...a fistful of feedback....Encouraged by Young's...solemn scratchings, Blake's apocalyptic visions set up home in Jarmusch's weirdsville west..."23.87518

Rolling Stone (8/8/96, p.58) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...BROKEN ARROW has the same tossed-off feel as HAWKS AND DOVES or RE*ACT*OR, as if Young took the eight tracks he'd been reviewing one particular day and decided they would be his new album....there's a detectable level of comfort in the playing, of moves learned and responses expected..."Entertainment Weekly (7/12/96, p.58) - "...as the album simmers down and the full effect of his alternately world-weary and dreamy imagery kicks in, you get a better idea of the hard-rocking evanescence he's going for..."- Rating: BQ (8/96, p.122) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...verses are short and solos are long, riffs end in sonic pile-ups of feedback, and there is at least one tune where the ghost of Hank Williams is pumped full of steroids and sent staggering blank-eyed and drooling across the fields....top stuff..."Musician (9/96, p.86) - "...Charming, loopy, slightly dark-hued, and exhibiting pronounced symptoms of musical schizophrenia,...[BROKEN ARROW] is a warm return to various forms and formats....the reappearance of Crazy Horse is especially welcome....Young is at his most mercurial..."23.78938

"The characters are exceptionally well-drawn, and the actors shine." Movieline's Hollywood Life "[Williams] handles all of the elements of the story...with an equally sure hand." Premiere "[I]t's easily the most robust and compelling movie ever spun off from Irving's work." Entertainment Weekly "[The film] captures the essence of the book while finding its own path to the heart....You can't shut the door on this spellbinder. It gets into your head." Rolling Stone "Jeff Bridges has long been one of the greats of American film acting....[Basinger's] performance is delicately filigreed and, along with Bridges', it makes THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR an unassuming pleasure."Los Angeles Times "Bridges and Basinger are powerful in the central scene..."Chicago Sun-Times "Williams sidesteps sentimentality to deliver his tragi-comedy with a delicious lightness of touch, making THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR the first Irving adaptation really to capture the author's playfulness and compassion." Sight and Sound10.27988

"...Portman is a talented actress..." Total Film "...[Portman] exhibits a maturity....Prewitt is handsome and charming..." Box Office "...The people in the movie are lovable and sympathetic....Portman is quite an actress..." Chicago Sun-Times10.16676

"...Portman is a talented actress..." Total Film "...[Portman] exhibits a maturity....Prewitt is handsome and charming..." Box Office "...The people in the movie are lovable and sympathetic....Portman is quite an actress..." Chicago Sun-Times10.16676

"...[The film] looks fine, and the performers are mostly good....The special effects are nicely spaced out, and the laugh lines fairly funny." New York Times "...Corman retains his visual flair....The film is handsome-looking..." Los Angeles Times8.140665

"...Powerful..." Rolling Stone "...Earnest, unrelenting....AMERICAN ME packs a considerable wallop..." Los Angeles Times "...The language, the clothes, the attitudes, are all shown with the understated conviction of a director who is sure of the material..." Chicago Sun-Times5.840523

"...[A] keenly observed comedy....GO is a wildly entertaining ride through the night..." Rolling Stone "...Frenetic....[Liman] elicits sprightly performances from his eclectic cast..." Sight and Sound "...Edgy, punchy, funny....Packed full of great lines and performances..." -- 4 out of 5 stars Total Film "...GO has a powerful personality of its own....Its ensemble cast is young, quick-witted and loaded with attitude..." New York Times "...A roller coaster of a movie....All the audacity pays off..."Box Office "...The best thing about the neon-flickering, techno-thumping rave-up known as GO is the way that it goes -- fast, loud and like crazy....Why not go along for the ride?..." USA Today "...GO offers breathtaking comic-action fantasy....GO is perfectly titled: Exhilarating and sharp, it never stops for a second..." Los Angeles Times "...This is an entertaining, clever black comedy....Limon is a talented director who works as his own cinematographer and finds a nice off-center humor..." Chicago Sun-Times5.161068

"...A mesmerizing family memoir fueled by sense of place, force of memory and love of nature....[Pitt] makes himself so like the young Robert Redford that the effect is astonishing..."New York Times "...It's the best movie ever whose raison d'etre is the spiritual glorification of fly-fishing..." USA Today "...Poetic, elegiac....The movie was shot on locations that suggest the bounty of the Western states in those days..." Chicago Sun-Times5.155864

"...A work of 'metacinematic' research. By remaking PSYCHO, the film-makers have managed to replay formally notions of transgression and difference that manifested themselves in Hitchcock's original as themes and subtexts..." Sight and Sound "...What could be juicier, or more appropriate, than this post-modern PSYCHO?....A fascinating stunt..." -- Rating: B Entertainment Weekly5.091745

"...RUSHMORE is made to be treasured....An immediate American classic..." Sight and Sound "...RUSHMORE stands as the perfect comedy, with excellent characterisation happily skipping along hand in hand with pithy intelligent dialogue and plotting..." -- 5 out of 5 stars Total Film "...[Murray] is at his off-kilter best in this quirky coming-of-age caper..." USA Today "...Bright, spiky....[RUSHMORE] includes a sweet turn by Seymour Cassel..." New York Times "...RUSHMORE feels like a miracle -- a movie whose imaginative audacity is matched by perfect execution....There is so much to admire and adore in RUSHMORE..." Premiere "...Like the best filmmakers, director Wes Anderson has an idiosyncratic sensibility, the rare ability to create a world that is completely his own..." Los Angeles Times "...Anderson and Wilson are good offbeat filmmakers. They fill the corners of their story with nice touches..." Chicago Sun-Times5.081114